An Icelandic elementary school has removed gender signs from its bathrooms in an effort to become “gender neutralâ€. The principal thinks that other schools should do the same. […]
And removing gender signs from restroom isn’t the only change the school has brought about this year. It has also changed one of the instructions regarding swimming lessons, in a memo that is sent home to parents. Instead of the typical phrasing of “girls should wear swimsuits and boys should wear swimtrunksâ€, it simply states that children should wear appropriate swim-attire, without categorizing which gender should wear what.
“We don’t see anything wrong with girls wearing trunks at the swimming pool, if they want to, or boys wearing a swimsuit. The kids can simply choose which one to use.â€
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